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Austria
Monk: Souvenir
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32
Australia
Julia Messenger: Do You Know I Sing Your Song
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33
Monaco
Jennifer Chevallier feat. Pascal Horn: Mon Etoile
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34
Poland
Mikromusic: Oddychaj
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Malta
Karen Polidano: Holding Me Down
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36
Guatemala
Ricardo Arjona: El Problema
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Israel
Pop-Up: Mechaka Le' Ahava
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38
Russia
TOKiO: Kogda Ti Plachesh...
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39
Andorra
Mägo De Oz: La Voz Dormida
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40
Denmark
Simone: As If
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41
South Korea
Harisu: Temptation
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42
Serbia
Indy: Bato, Bre
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Slovenia
Teja Haver: Virtual Girl
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44
Argentina
Arbol: Suerte!
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45
Iceland
Baggalútur: Allt Fyrir Mig
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Turkey
Athena: I Love Mud On My Face
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The Netherlands
Bløf & Counting Crows: Holiday In Spain
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48
Germany
Jeanette Biedermann: Rockin' On Heaven's Floor
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Lebanon | Mika: Relax, Take It Easy | 181 pts |
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United Kingdom | Dido: White Flag | 164 pts |
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France | Indochine & Melissa Auf Der Maur: Le Grand Secret | 144 pts |
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Estonia | Hannah: These Days | 139 pts |
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Ireland | Enya: Wild Child | 124 pts |
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Finland | Nightwish: Ghost Love Score | 111 pts |
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Luxembourg | Emmanuel Moire: Mon Essentiel | 98 pts |
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Greece | Elli Kokkinou: Erotas Ine | 96 pts |
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Chile | Kudai: Escapar | 95 pts |
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The Philippines | Sitti Navarro: Para Sa Akin | 93 pts |
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Sweden | Marit Bergman: No Party | 89 pts |
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Liechtenstein | Gracia: Never Been | 81 pts |
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Ukraine | Platina: Zaivi Slova | 78 pts |
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Poland | Mikromusic: Oddychaj | 77 pts |
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Malta | Karen Polidano: Holding Me Down | 70 pts |
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Guatemala | Ricardo Arjona: El Problema | 66 pts |
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Russia | TOKiO: Kogda Ti Plachesh... | 64 pts |
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Denmark | Simone: As If | 63 pts |
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South Korea | Harisu: Temptation | 58 pts |
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Serbia | Indy: Bato, Bre | 49 pts |
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Slovenia | Teja Haver: Virtual Girl | 48 pts |
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Iceland | Baggalútur: Allt Fyrir Mig | 42 pts |
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San Marino | Lisa: Oceano | 171 pts |
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Canada | Avril Lavigne: Keep Holding On | 132 pts |
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Puerto Rico | Chelo: Cha Cha | 121 pts |
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China | Fan Wei Qi & Angela Zhang Shao Han: Ru Guo De Shi | 116 pts |
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Spain | Rebeca: I Love You Mi Vida | 115 pts |
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Venezuela | Mermelada Bunch: Amor De Gorda | 113 pts |
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Cyprus | Michalis Hatzigiannis: Cheria Psila | 112 pts |
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Palestine | Toni Qattan: Eyouny Sehrany | 109 pts |
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Mexico | Camila: Coleccionista De Canciones | 104 pts |
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Bulgaria | Maria Ilieva: On My Own | 96 pts |
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Norway | Vamp: Månemannen | 96 pts |
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Algeria | Rachid Taha: Kifache Rah | 95 pts |
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Romania | Adriana: Aripi | 93 pts |
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Austria | Monk: Souvenir | 90 pts |
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Australia | Julia Messenger: Do You Know I Sing Your Song | 79 pts |
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Monaco | Jennifer Chevallier feat. Pascal Horn: Mon Etoile | 77 pts |
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Israel | Pop-Up: Mechaka Le' Ahava | 63 pts |
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Andorra | Mägo De Oz: La Voz Dormida | 62 pts |
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Argentina | Arbol: Suerte! | 41 pts |
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Turkey | Athena: I Love Mud On My Face | 40 pts |
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The Netherlands | Bløf & Counting Crows: Holiday In Spain | 24 pts |
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Germany | Jeanette Biedermann: Rockin' On Heaven's Floor | 23 pts |
Mika is a true young internationalist. Born in Beirut in the middle of the 80s, Mika’s family soon found themselves having to move to Paris at the height of the war. When his father was subsequently taken hostage and held at the American embassy in Kuwait the family eventually settled in London. An inevitably turbulent experience for our young hero, he found himself bereft, lost in the chasm of a displaced upbringing. “It was the combination of moving as well as a horrible time I had at school in the first few years of living in London that lead me to forget how to read and write, and stop talking for a little while. I was pulled out of school for over six months; in order to sort my self out and find a new school. This is when music really became important. It got me back on my feet.” He says now that by the age of 9 he knew that songwriting was his destiny. The electric performances that would win over some of the most hardened musical ears on the planet would come later. “After I started singing as a boy I started to get jobs everywhere. With the help of a terrifyingly tough Russian singing teacher, I got to be really good at professional gigs. I did everything from recordings with the Royal Opera House to the Orbit Chewing gum jingle. I'll never forget calling up British Airways to get a ticket, only to be placed in a line, listening to my own voice. That was a painful 8 minutes. I think the other main reason for getting so much work was that I was insanely cheap! My mother and I had no idea what i was supposed to get paid, and no one was in a hurry to educate us. Looking back on it, i think 45 quid for the Orbit chewing gum jingle, could have been a little too cheap.” A self-taught piano virtuoso, gymnastic vocalist and born entertainer, Mika has music in his bones and at a prodigiously young age he was ready to show out and let go. Mika wasn’t hunched over a radio under his bedclothes or seduced by the glitz of "Top of the Pop’s" on the TV screen when he had his first performance awakenings. Instead, he was catapulted onto the stage of a Richard Strauss opera at 11. David Hockney was pottering around at rehearsals in the background, with models, designing the set (Mika still has the poster for the opera on his living room wall now, signed by Hockney). After near complete social exclusion at school - “I wish I could say I was a self-imposed loner but it was imposed on me” - this was a life he fell in love with, instantly: “It was a magical world that you could live in. A parallel universe for people that is illusory and enchanting and amazing.” For the last 12 years of his life he has followed his maxim of a parallel universe to its natural conclusion and is now about to present his dynamic, idiosyncratic and unashamedly personal debut album. Brimming with brightly-hued melody, engaging hooks and a distinct lyrical style that speaks exactly and distinctly of its moment, he has finally been given an outlet for his unique vision. “I grew up listening to every thing from Joan Baez and Dylan, to Serge Gainsbourg and Flamenco. My musical tastes have become more eclectic as I’ve got older, but I'm always going back to great artist songwriters, people who make great records to their own vision. Prince, Harry Nillson, Elton John, even Michael Jackson. These people make amazing pop records that couldn’t be performed by anybody else and that’s what I always wanted to do.”
